"These have been particularly massive floods. Nobody can recall such large floods in recent decades, but there is no chaos. Many displaced are being sheltered by relatives, tens of thousands are in schools or sometimes in health centres: - said Mohamed Morchid, head of the MSF mission in Burkina Faso.
The capital's main hospital, Yalgado, was damaged and some departments, the dialysis and the casualty departments for example, are no longer functioning.